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Midterm 1

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Katharsis
dispose of toxic emotion and clarifying them
Epicureans
People that enjoy the simple pleasure in life to live moderately and pleasantly
Stoic
Emotion = BAD, Rationality = Good!
Descartes
mind-body dualism, 6 fundamental emotions (Wonder, joy, hate, desire, love, sadness), Our perception impact emotions we feel
Psychoanalysis
Freud, revealing the unconscious memories via retelling, interpreting life story b/c it informs correct emotions
Phineas Gage
Rod through brain, still lived, but personality changed(couldn't regulate emotions)
Empathy
State of feeling what another person is feeling
Appraisal
Making sense of an event -> emotional response
Emotional laber
Arlie Hochschild// Work that involve regulating emotions in order to appease others ex) airline stewardess's emotional labor
Superabundance
Reproduce more than they need b/c not all will survive
Variation
hereditary difference in offspring -> genetic diversity/fittest will survive
Intersexual competition
selecting mate with best characteristic what you like in mate
Intrasexual competition
compelling for mate complete with same sex
Adaptation
traits that allow for survival and reproduction in changing environment
Environmnent of evolutionary adaptedness
human evolved emotions to help with survival, selection, and reproduction
Fitness
Overall "good "qualities for successful survival of reproduction, strong social network => preferred guilty
Chronosome, Genom, DMA
Genetic infor that passed on/ pass on favorate traits
Imprinting
beginning of human attachment process/ newborn born with caregiver
Secure Base
Trust in caregiver providen sense of safety for child to explore
Dunbar's hypothesis
Laughter & conversation as a way to connect with other -> replaced physically grooming
Grooming
Interaction for chimps and primate to maintain social bonds
Ker vs Song
Ker: showing happiness, song: justifiably angry
Romanticism
emotions are valuable to authentic, important on literature, politics, personal life
Cultural approach
emotions from attachment -> enable social life, interpretation of belief or roles, origin of practices,values and institutions, sense of self, possibiliy not universal
Practice vs potnetial
how emotion are enacted(실제로 해보다) vs how emotion can be expressed differently from native culture
Independent self
define self according to unique traits, individual cultures experience more disengaging emotion
Interdependant self
Shaped by different context and relationships, fills roles and duties in communities
Amae
merged togetherness, ex of interdependence of jap
Focal emotions
common emotion in a culture, Example: In ancient Japan, for instance, embarrassment was an emotion that was focal and valued
Affect Valuation Theory
emotions that promote cultural values became a more important role in people's social life
ex) US- Excitement -> self-expression, achivement
East Asian -> contentedness and calm
Epistemology
Culture-related epistemologies shape the complexity of emotional experience.
E.g. Buddhism in East Asian cultures promotes dialecticism, thus people of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean descent will report feeling both positive and negative emotions in any particular moment.
Dialecticism
contrasting emotions about someone(애증), Rooted in the intellectual traditions such as Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism from 2500 years ago
Principles of change, contradiction, contex
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Emotional complexity
The simultaneous experience of contradictory emotions
E.g. Happiness and sadness, compassion and contempt, or anger and love
Display rules
Rules as to whether and how emotions should be expressed when a person experiences them
E.g. "Boys don't cry."
Ethnographies
Study of culture, live with cultural people, try to be in the part of the culture, researcher became invisible in the culture. Can find the "real" culture after the person get into the culture.
Discourse
Use language to make sense of emotion
Natyasatra
Hindu-Indian text, how actors and dancers express emotion in the performance. Theory of rasas: aesthetic emotion unimpeded by egotism(self-will)
self-adaptor
nervous behaviors people engage in with no seeming intention, as if simply to release nervous energy ex)jiggling one's legs
Two aspects of Darwin theory
1. Reflex-like mechanism, useful or not
2. from habits that evolutionary or individual past had once been useful.
vagal tone
Para sympathetic, decrease heart rate, the ratio of heart rate and respiratory rate, compassion
imprinting
check, the relationship between baby and their caregivers, first attachment
Civilizing process impact
The higher class starts feeling disgusted toward common people. The wall of embarrassment separates the high class from the commoners. (separation). The higher class feels embarrassment when they look at the lower class(reason to make the wall)
Natural design for gene replication
how emotion is passed until present day
FAC system
Ekman & Friesen
emblem
thumbs up, nonverbal gesture that directly translates to a word
Ilustrators
emphasize the speech, animate your speech with gesture
regulator
listener, coordinate the speech
Dunbar's hypothesis
grooming to maintain social bonds by chimpanzee, for human through conversation
cultural relativism
all culture are moral.
blush
from undesirable social attention
WalterConnon
emotion -> body
William James
body -> emotion
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